Improvement in hand-stamps for tickets



E. T. JONES. Hand-Stamps for Tickets.

s Patented 51,8%, v27, 1877.

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ELLIS r. JONES, OE NOEWICH, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOE To HIMSELE AND WILLIAMe. KELSALL, OE SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN HAND-STAMPS FOR TICKETS.

Y Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 197,518, datedNbvember 27, 1877; application led July 17,1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be itknown that I, ELLIS T. JONES, of Norwich, ofthe county of NewLondon, of the State of Connecticut, have invented a newand usefulImprovement in Presses for Stamping Tickets 5 and do hereby declare thesame to be described in the following specification and represented inthe accompanying drawings, of which- Figure 1 is a front elevation, Fig.2 a side view, and Fig. 3 a vertical section, of a press embodying myinvention. Fig. 4lr is a rear View of the movable type-holder, to behereinafter described.

My invention Consists, mainly, of a standard, a swing-frame, a bed, astamping-slide, and a bearingscrew, all arranged and applied andprovided with a removable typeholder, substantially as hereinafterexplained; also, of such and a card-relieving spring, arranged and'tooperate as set forth.

In such drawings,A denotes ahollowstandard or column, having an ear, a,projecting from its cap b. The standard is open in front to receive apendulous or swing frame, B, which is pivoted to the ear a, and extendsbelow it, in manner as shown. The said frame B` haswithin it, andprojecting from it, as represented, the bedy or platform C, -upon whicha ticket rests while being stamped, there being arranged in such bed,and immediately under the stamping type or types, a cushion or piece ofmetal, c. the bed, serve to guide the ticket therefrom or into place forbeing stamped.

There is arranged within the swing-frame, and applied and'suitablyguided so as to move lengthwise therein, a stamping slide, D, againstwhose upper end a bearing or screw, E, screwed through the cap b, rests..When the slide is in its extreme outward position, a projection, e,from its foot rests against the back of the piece c. v

. A Spring, f, applied to a rod, g, arranged as shown, serves to advanceor move forward the stamping-slide and the swingframe.

On pressing back the said Swing-frame, the stampingslide will be borneagainst the bearA ing or screwE ina manner to cause such slide vto movedownward. One or more springs, la,

Flanges d d, extending up fromsuitably applied to the swing-frameandslide, serve to move the slide -upward within the swing-frame while thelatter is 4in the act of moving forward.

The stamping-slide is recessed, as shown at fi, to receive a removabletype-holder, F, which, formed as shown, is chambered at its back to holdthe types G, which are held in place by a spring, k, arranged in thechamber Z, and to press the types up to one edge of the chamagainst thestamping-slide or the projection or shoulder-piece c. Furthermore,thespring I is also for the purpose of separating the card from the typeafter an impression of the latter, or, in other words, to hold the carddown upon the bed while the type may be in the act of being drawnupward.

The front part of the bed I usually groove horizontally, and line withleather or some suitable material for the hand to bear against whilepressing the swing-frame inward.

To use the press, a person holding a ticket in his right hand is toplace such ticket on the bed and press it endwise thereon up to theshoulder-piece, and isvnext to force the swingframe backwardsufliciently to cause the types to be moved down upon the ticket. Thisdone, he isto pull the ticket out of the press, the Swing frame beingforced forward by the spring. Y I do not claim, in a machine forstamping tickets, the combination of a swinging or tilting frame pivotedto a iixed base, a swinging platen hung to such frame, and a rod havingat its upper end abearing against such platen, and at its lower end anadjustable step all being as shown in the United States PatentN0.17s,296.

. What I claim as my invention in the deg scribed ticketstamping pressis as follows:

l 1. In combination with the bed C and the v 3. The combination of y thecard-relieving swing-frame B, pivoted to the upper part of spring I, thestamping-slide D, swing-frame the standard A, so as to swing Within it,the B, and bed C, the bearing E, and the standstamping-slde D and itsprojection e, and the ard A, all arranged and applied substantiallyspring h and screw E, arranged with such as set forth. bed and frame, asset forth. A r p 2. The combination of the removable type- ELLIS T.JONES. holder F and its clamp-screw H, the stampingslide D, swing-frameB, bed C, bearing E, and Witnesses: the standard A, all arranged andapplied sub- R. H. EDDY, stantially as setforth. JOHN R. SNOW.

